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Hills are really just humps
On the trails or in the streets I see them walking their bikes up
hill. I have a saying I yell out, that thing was made to pedal. Take this small city 6 by 6 miles. It goes from sea level to 3 miles away with about 250 ft above sea level. Maybe they need a motor on their bike and one for their brain. |
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Hills are really just humps
On Mar 4, 5:26*am, Crazy Fred wrote:
On the trails or in the streets I see them walking their bikes up hill. I have a saying I yell out, that thing was made to pedal. Take this small city 6 by 6 miles. It goes from sea level to 3 miles away with about 250 ft above sea level. Maybe they need a motor on their bike and one for their brain. Heh... a 250 foot incline over 3 miles and they're pushing? Are you guys riding is loose sand? Whereabouts are you? Anyway, glad to hear you're still pedaling the pedal-driven machine! |
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Crazy Fred wrote:
On the trails or in the streets I see them walking their bikes up hill. I have a saying I yell out, that thing was made to pedal. Take this small city 6 by 6 miles. It goes from sea level to 3 miles away with about 250 ft above sea level. Maybe they need a motor on their bike and one for their brain. My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out) Matt |
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Per Crazy Fred:
On the trails or in the streets I see them walking their bikes up hill. I have a saying I yell out, that thing was made to pedal. Take this small city 6 by 6 miles. It goes from sea level to 3 miles away with about 250 ft above sea level. Maybe they need a motor on their bike and one for their brain. My neighbor asks me to ride with him every so often. Actually, it's been pretty amazing how he's come along vis-a-vis average speed/ride time. On fat tires we've gone from 8 mph and a half hour max to 11-12 mph for between 1.5 and 2 hours. Personally, I like climbing hills on a bike better than I like descending them. But the guy still avoids hills. I think it's part negative preconception, and part lack of familiarity with using the gears. I keep telling him, "It doesn't have to matter how steep the hill is.... you always have the option of downshifting until the effort/cadence is the same as riding on the flat." But I'm not getting through.... yet... -- PeteCresswell |
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Per Mike:
You don't _always_ have that option... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Street,_Dunedin . Wow. I recall reading about a uphill race in San Francisco where one of the regular winners does it riding solo on a tandem - to keep the front wheel on the ground. -- PeteCresswell |
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